Gulf War 2 Related Items

Gulf War 2 and Related Items

Links change, get forgotten or go down, important facts and features get overlooked; on so serious an issue as perpetual war and enforcement of the nu-imperium that's why some of the best articles, by journalists in publications that can still claim to have have some credibility and honour, have been reproduced here...

Real goal in Iraq Jay Bookman, Atlantic-Journal Constitution, 01 October 2002

The Dresden Bombing - An Eyewitness Account
Edda West, Current Concerns, 30 February 2003
advance sample of the new imperium?

Allies not telling truth - things are going wrong
Robert Fisk, New Zealand Herald, 26 March 2003
lower on the same page: link to a site detailing the after-effects of depleted uranium
and 10th March 03 news-item Pentagon threatens to kill independent reporters

Gas and Drugs in Bush's Arsenal
Geoffrey Lean, New Zealand Herald, 05 March 2003

The good, the bad and the propaganda Gideon Levy, Haaretz, 30 March 2003

Monsters Inc. Chris Floyd, The Ecologist, March 2003
now the USA seek to manufacture super-soldiers

Blair, the War Criminal, Should Be Sent to The Hague
Tam Dalyell, The Guardian, 28 March 2003

The militarization of humanitarian aid
from the Jordan Times, 31 March 2003

The minute it's made up, you'll hear about it
Mark Steel, The Independent, 03 April 2003

We see too much. We know too much. That's our best defence
John Pilger, The Independent, 06 April 2003

US plans to loot Iraqi antiques
Liam McDougall, Sunday Herald, 06 April 2003

The other Saddam
Mani Shankar Aiyar, UPI International Desk (Bangalore), 06 April 2003

1991 Massacre of Soldiers on 'Highway of Death'
Joyce Chediac, Pravda, 07 April 2003

Is it war against the Iraqi people?
Essam Al-Ghalib, Al-Jazeerah, 08 April 2003

How Much Truth in War Reporting?
Abeer Mishkas, Arab News, 08 April 2003

Evil of Cluster Bombs
Essam Al-Ghalib, Arab News, 09 April 2003

A Dark Day for Journalism
Mohammed Alkhereiji, Arab News, 09 April 2003

www.thememoryhole.org

"On 9 April 2003, the front page of the London Evening Standard (circulation: 400,000) contained a blurry image supposedly showing a throng of Iraqis in Baghdad celebrating the toppling of Saddam Hussein. What we are really looking at is an incredibly ham-fisted attempt at photo manipulation."

Doctored Photo from London Evening Standard

24th July 2003 : the Evening Standard finally confessed that their picture was faked, but pointed out that's quite all right since as a result it looked how they wanted it to.
"this did not alter the clarity of truth of the picture's message".
Anyway, here is the Standard's front-page lie, and their subsequent weasel.

Knock it down, then build it back up again
Mark Steel, The Independent, 10 April 2003

US Forces Encourage Looting
Ole Rothenborg, Dagens Nyheter, 11 April 2003

"I'll stay off bandwagon of conquering army"
Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star, 13 April 2003

Crime Against Humanity
John Pilger, New Statesman, 14 April 2003

Large traces of Iraqi, world history wiped out
K.S. Dakshina Murthy, Al Jazeera, 14 April 2003

Library books, letters and priceless documents set ablaze
Robert Fisk, The Independent, 15 April 2003

The Iraqi Museum in Baghdad
fine as it was, before "liberation" by Bliar & Bushwhack Inc.

How and why the US encouraged looting in Iraq
Patrick Martin, World Socialist Website, 15 April 2003

Cluster Bombs Take a Heavy Toll of Children
Thomas Frank, Newsday / Al Jazeerah, 16 April 2003

Embed with the military
David Miller, Al Jazeerah, 16 April 2003

Al-Jazeerah (USA) Editor threatened
Dr. Hassan A. El-Najjar, aljazeerah.us, 17 April 2003

This is What Privatization Looks Like
Stanley Heller, Counterpunch, 17 April 2003

A Crusade After All?
Jane Lampman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 April 2003

The unthinkable is becoming normal.....
John Pilger, The Independent, 20 April 2003

The American poodle
Ze'ev Sternhell, Haaretz, 20 April 2003

Pro-U.S. pundits should get real
Peter Scowen, Toronto Star, 20 April 2003

Growing resentment of the Yanks
Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz, 20 April 2003

Hollywood silencing / sacking war critics
Andrew Gumbel, The Independent, 21 April 2003

Wolves and Sheep (short history of the war in Iraq)
Stan Goff, www.fromthewilderness.com, 21 April 2003

Bush's "Christian" Blood Cult
Wayne Madsen, CounterPunch, 22 April 2003

US accused of turning blind eye to killings by Kurds
Kim Sengupta, The Independent, 23 April 2003

Arab world now faces invasion by American TV
Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, 24 April 2003

Foreign Companies to Takeover Russian Oil Industry
Akhtyam Akhtyrov, Pravda, 24 April 2003

US right/evangelists rallied against "roadmap"
Lili Galili, Haaretz, 25 April 2003

Grace News (Blairbotherers?)
Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman, corporatepredators.org, April 2003

Bush Administration and the End of Civil Liberties
Elaine Cassel, CounterPunch, 26 April 2003

How the road to war was paved with lies
Raymond Whitaker, The Independent, 27 April 2003

Americans have good reason to be afraid of their leaders
Barbara Sumner Burstyn, NZ Herald, 28 April 2003

Unease as Blair lays soul bare
Kamal Ahmed, The Observer, 04 May 2003

"the Iraqis will have to learn democracy someplace else"
Sam Smith, The Progressive Review, May 2003

US officer sacked -- for defending democracy
extracted from Wall Street Journal, 08 May 2003

three items deplore US war-media quisling
Schechter & Forbes, GVNews.Net / MediaChannel.org, May 2003

(?) Saddam prepares for guerrilla warfare (?)
Information Clearing House / al-Watan al-'Arabi, 08 May 2003

Iraq Inc : a joint venture built on broken promises
Usborne, Cornwell & Reeves, The Independent, 10 May 2003

USA to impose WTO dictates on Middle-East
News Agencies, Haaretz, 10 May 2003

There are some unflattering truths to 'NeoCons'
Philip Gold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11 May 2003

US rivals turn on each other as weapons search draws blank
Harris, Bright & Helmore, The Observer, 11 May 2003

The truth about Jessica (Lynch)
John Kampfner, The Guardian, 15 May 2003

US plans death camp
news.com.au / Herald Sun, 26 May 2003

Next stop Tehran?
Simon Tisdall, The Guardian, 27 May 2003

Resignation of Ari Fleischer : official liar goes for the gold
Barry Grey, World Socialist Website, 27 May 2003

US finds evidence of WMD at last...
Julian Borger, The Guardian, 28 May 2003

Neo-cons move quickly on Iran
Jim Lobe, Asia Times, 28 May 2003

U.S. official : Iraqi weapons only one reason for war
Reuters / Haaretz, 29 May 2003

Trotsky's ghost wandering the White House
Jeet Heer, National Post, 07 June 2003

Gives with one hand, takes away with other
Rohan Jayasekera, Index On Censorship, 11 June 2003

Bush Immunity for US Oil Companies - recall the MAI?
Corporate Watch / Institute for Policy Studies, 23 July 2003

Remember how the first gulf war was incited via a totally fake story about babies and incubators, invented by a Wall Street publicity firm working on behalf of the Kuwaiti regime and doubtless the Pentagon as well? Remember how the Balkan war on Serbia was stoked up by a supposed "concentration camp" picture that was not at all what it seemed (the photographer was inside a barbed wire compound to protect equipment from being stolen, whilst the "victims" were in fact outside the wire)....

Don't forget that the Iraqi regime now being media-demonised was itself originally installed with CIA backing, as were the fundamentalist fanatics in Afghanistan... and that some of these same fanatics (linked with Bush, not Iraq) were shipped into the Balkans early on with CIA collusion.

And what about the ongoing sex-slavery racket in the Balkan region which appears to be down to the KLA/Greater Albanian Mafia, its NATO allies and even some UN officials?

Don't also forget that there have been all too many harrowing accounts worldwide over the last few decades of people terrorised, tortured, persecuted, displaced or killed by US government or corporate sponsored militias and regimes....

No amount of weaselling prolefeed from the $tazi $tatist likes of Bush and Blair can alter the fact that they are engaged in a terrorist war against the Iraqi people for ulterior motives of geo-political power and corporate profit. All things considered, would it not be a bigger, better and more comprehensive solution, if the allegedly peace-and-democracy seeking "coalition" armies were to march on Washington and outlaw the WTO/IMF?

C.M.

UK and US "embedded" media reports on the war on Iraq and its aftermath are censored, and all too often packed with propaganda and misinformation. Independent media network Al Jazeerah's web presence was attacked by hackers -- "State Assets"? -- and partially disabled, which is something the hypocritical Bush and Blair regimes would otherwise have denounced as "terrorism". An alternative (detailed, accurate and objective) account of events was available in a daily summary derived from Russian Military Intelligence (GRU). Translated into English, this was at Venik's Aviation. From the 9th of April it would seem that in the wake of a meeting between Rice of the USA and Putin of Russia, the GRU sources were ordered to desist from such public information updates. So much for Western weasels about open government and a free press.

15 April 2003 : the UK PM is one sick puppy....

Today's media exploitation for electoral purposes by president Blair of a war-maimed child is nauseatingly cynical. It's quite possible that Ali wouldn't now be armless, had Blair opposed Bush and the NWO Neocons instead of collaborating in their imperiumist violence. Next time, Tony, crop the photo not the kid.
And what about all the rest?

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